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Pentagon's Fortress plan prepares bases for a power grid shutdown

FOX 13 Seattle's report details plans to stockpile supplies and keep military operations running without civilian infrastructure.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 129,098 views a day, 32 times a normal first day on this channel (4,048).

Pentagon preps military bases for 'doomsday' power grid scenario | FOX 13 Seattle

How does a military base keep operating when the power grid around it goes down? The Pentagon's answer, as Jennifer Griffin reports in a FOX 13 Seattle segment, involves preparing to operate off-grid for at least 90 days.

The contingency program is called Fortress. It calls for weapons, fuel and power supplies that would allow bases to function through a severe infrastructure shutdown. The report describes preparations for a possible emergency, not an outage already underway.

An official puts the objective plainly: "Our bases stay lit. Our aircraft keep flying, our command centers never go dark."

That requires more than backup electricity. An expert in the report explains that moving away from just-in-time deliveries means purchasing supplies and storing them on bases before they are needed. Griffin also describes vulnerabilities beyond the perimeter, including ports and railways, and shows Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain Complex as an emergency destination for military leadership.

The segment has reached about 166,000 views, an unusually large audience for one of the station's short reports. Its estimated first-day views were more than thirty times the usual level for that format.

Griffin closes with the scale of the undertaking: years of work and billions of dollars across roughly two hundred domestic military installations.

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